Sweet Nest

This man that I love. Yesterday he turned 40. When we first met as teenagers, life seemed an impossibly long continuum. And here, after a...

Portofino, Italy Just kidding! Humor or funny fibs, seems to be a conversation starter often employed over here. It's in jest but ...

Jane overlooking Portofino, Italy 2015

I've been trying to "lay low" this week after an appointment with the osteopath. I am not supposed to do anything (my docto...

Right now in Normandy, everywhere you drive there are expanses of lush green dotted with very linear fields of yellow. It's rather bre...

I used to think I wasn't a fan of change. But then, so many of my best decisions have elicited massive life alterations. Perhaps I a...

Last night Pops wanted to go to sleep. My body did too ... but my brain would not comply. " You know I have to process verbally ,...

Time and how it is spent is an interesting thing. As a generalization, it seems everyone needs more of it and ... if you've already ex...

To be honest, I've never really considered myself a "city-girl," as I always picture that term applying to some New York sop...

Today I was rifling about looking for some paperclips to unite bundles of school registration paperwork (seems like staples are frowne...

Do you know why this girl is smiling? First of all, She and Pops built a tree swing. That is sure to bring a smile to most anyone, big or...

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,  and He delivered them from their distress.  He led them by a straight way  to a ...

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This last year has been such a tangled vine of growth. So many challenges that seem to stretch on and wind their tendrils around anything ...

 I heard someone say, recently, that when they are engaged in conversation, or are posed a question, they ask themselves, "What am I ...

Shells upon a radiator, Aigaliers, France    "The fewer things you keep, the more special they become..." -Rachel Meeks

 I have been contemplative, of late. Upon the growing list of things I feel compelled to mind-wrestle, is ... the blog. Do I continue? Do ...

Have you heard the phrase, "Having a moment" ? ... I've been having plenty of those lately. Lots of transitions of late. So...

It's been wiggly since Easter. This weekend provided the moment she had been waiting for. Her first lost tooth. Can I say that it wa...

A primrose that looks like a geranium in a happy coral-pink that seems to be thriving in an old pot on my hearth? Yes, please! Best three ...